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That's actually pretty cool. The church I attend actually teaches post mil. So yeah.I believe I actually got that from Kim Riddlebarger's website. He's got a list of books there, Institutes is one of the ones he said that about. lol.
I actually am in the middle of reading it right now as well.
With the Reformed resurgence we are finding this more and more, where Reformed folks are sojourning in Arminian churches, it's going to happen. What I was unprepared for was the counter resurgence of militant Arminianism, it's almost rabid. You can't attack a manmade religion for long before they organize and lead counter strikes I guess....
My question is why would they? I understand that in many areas there are no churches who hold to the Doctrines of Grace but I travel a fair distance to hear the truth of the Gospel. I always have had to. Is the truth of God so unimportant that we can attend a false church out of convenience? Is being fed by the Gospel of Christ so common that we can do without it? Are we so uncommitted to the truth of God that we can swallow pablum and be satisfied? Can a believer be satisfied in the wilderness?With the Reformed resurgence we are finding this more and more, where Reformed folks are sojourning in Arminian churches, it's going to happen. What I was unprepared for was the counter resurgence of militant Arminianism, it's almost rabid. You can't attack a manmade religion for long before they organize and lead counter strikes I guess....
I had to church hop for a while and attend some very bad Pentecostal and Non-denominational churches until I found my current church. Those were dark times indeed.
Exactly! There's lots of deception and crooked so called "pastors" out there who do church to make money.There is some crazy stuff gong on in the name of Christ. Finding my conservative PCA church was like finding water in the desert after years of church-hopping various non-denoms.
Thanking God today for Calvin's Institutes! I've been listening to the audiobook the last two nights and have been greatly blessed by it!
Respectfully i must slightly disagree.Also, I have recently become increasingly distrustful of my own reason. When you start realizing just how deceitful the heart is and how ignorant we are, you really start realizing how much in God's good graces you are and it makes you realize that if you are wrong on your faith, you are liable to punishment for one's sin.
Luke 18 says:
Then He took the twelve aside and said to them, “Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and all things which are written through the prophets about the Son of Man will be accomplished. For He will be handed over to the Gentiles, and will be mocked and mistreated and spit upon, 33 and after they have scourged Him, they will kill Him; and the third day He will rise again.” But the disciples understood none of these things, and the meaning of this statement was hidden from them, and they did not comprehend the things that were said.
Now that is really scary. We cannot trust out own minds to understand the simplest of statements. So, it merely ups the ante. It shows how gracious God has been to us in opening our eyes...or how blind we are if God forbid we are not understanding God at His word as we ought.
Some use the term "Maturity" in exchange for the phrase "a sound minde".II Timothy 1:7 1599 Geneva Bible said:For God hath not giuen to vs the Spirite of feare, but of power, and of loue, and of a sound minde.
Exactly! There's lots of deception and crooked so called "pastors" out there who do church to make money.
I heard your pappy grew up with Lee and Jackson.Well I am from south of the Mason Dixon line and I love the song Dixie. My heroes are General Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. I have a Confederate battle flag flying over my bookshelves. So I guess you could call me a Rebel.
And I would say not completely. But I still have hope for you. Wink.
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